With less than 1% of all World War II veterans alive, Andrés González Vega recalls his military service, his fight against ...

The global superstar's 30-show residency in his homeland and his focus on its culture, music and issues "means everything" to ...

The group has received reports this week of detainees from the island sent to the Florida facility and allegations of "rights ...

Some 26,000 people live along the channel — a historically marginalized community, and one of the most densely populated areas in Puerto Rico, according to a community group that serves the ...

Benitez, 61, has been to Puerto Rico eight times since Hurricane Maria. She has painted houses, sealed roofs and cleared land for farming, dipping into her savings to help fund her efforts.

If Karian Batista had $100, she would buy food. "I don't have enough for the kids," she says. Distributing cash, a growing trend in aid, gives people "dignity and choice," one organization says.

The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 and granted it territory status in 1917, which means those born on the island are U.S. citizens but do not have a voting representative in Congress.

Anger seething in Puerto Rico is expected to draw thousands to San Juan's cobble-stoned streets again Monday in an unrelenting push to force the U.S. territory's governor to step down.

Hurricane Fiona has brought devastation to the people of Puerto Rico, and advocates are stressing the need for on-the-ground aid and resources. The now Category 3 storm grew more powerful Tuesday ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... The arrivals were a group of 63 people on Nov. 18; a group of 52 people on Dec. 24; and another 176 people packed on the deck of a 60-foot sailboat on Jan. 9.

Nine days after Hurricane Fiona, hundreds of thousands in Puerto Rico still lack electricity. Mayors are calling on retired electrical workers, despite threats legal from the private electric utility.